how do i scp .dotfiles??

[Jason Helfman]

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:19:40 -0400
Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/27/10 1:07 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 
> > guys,
> > 
> > this is the start of my master switchover.  how to i copy/scp,say,
> > ~/.purpur to home/kline/.purple?  along with many hundreds of other
> > dot files? scp doesn't do it.
> > 
> > tx,
> > 
> 
> scp user at foo:\.dotfile .dotfile
> 
> Regards,
> 

Use rsync over ssh.


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